Coincidence?

NyNurse33 · Post by **NyNurse33** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:39 pm

That's where I got mine...from my oral surgeon. Had my wisdom teeth removed last year and ended up with dry socket which they misdiagnosed as just having food particles caught in the hole. So they initially sent me home with this syringe with a pointy tip. Didn't work for dry socket, but it will come in handy now!!

birdshell · Post by **birdshell** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:44 pm

It sounds perfect!

I use a child's dosing syringe, which has a sort of point. They can be bought in drugstores. The larger syringe allows more saline to be used at one time, and the point makes it easier to wash the nostrils. This may be why my doc calls it a "nasal wash".

If one asks the pharmacist at Target where to find one, the pharmacist will produce a free dosing syringe from behind the counter.

My allergist/immunologist recommends the "squirt and drip" method. Sometimes it comes out the other nostril, sometimes not. I do not know if this has to do with my deviated septum.

The whole concept came from the Mayo Clinic; my doc also prescribes a liter of standard saline with 3 different antibiotics that is made at a compounding pharmacy. I can't remember what they are, but the compounding consists of opening the saline and dropping one pill of each antibiotic into the bottle to dissolve. Ya wouldn't think it would take such a special pharmacist to do so, but apparently it does.

NyNurse33 · Post by **NyNurse33** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:51 pm

did u see my other post? Am I doing something wrong?

birdshell · Post by **birdshell** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:02 pm

NyNurse33 wrote:did u see my other post? Am I doing something wrong?

NO!!!---Sorry to alarm you.

Just my teacher-compulsion to add a little! The oral syringe sounds like the child's dosing syringe, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same!

NyNurse33 · Post by **NyNurse33** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:05 pm

oh no, u didn't alarm me. I think your syringe is a better answer than mine. Mine is too pointy and too much of a direct stream.

birdshell · Post by **birdshell** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:19 pm

I'm not exactly sure what yours looks like, but it really does not matter too much. My first syringe that the compounding pharmacy included was a regular one that was larger than the average one used for injections.

Of course, there was no needle....